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Issue: Vol. 4169 No. 2: 20 Sept. 2016
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2016-09-20
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4169.2.11
Page range: 387–389
Abstract views: 104
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Zaramillidae, a new amphipod family from the subantarctic Kerguelen Islands (Amphipoda, Senticaudata, Gammaroidea, Zaramillidae fam. nov.)

Australian Museum Research Institute, 6 College Street, Sydney, NSW 2010, Australia
School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University College Cork, Cork Enterprise Centre, Distillery Fields, North Mall, Cork, Ireland.
Crustacea Amphipoda Senticaudata Gammaridira Gammaroidea taxonomy new family

Abstract

A new senticaudate amphipod family, Zaramillidae is described from the subantarctic Kerguelen Islands, based on the genus Zaramilla Stebbing, 1888. It is placed in the gammaridiran amphipods.

 

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